UK National Lottery to go offline this weekend for "significant improvements"

Lottery Post — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:45:55 GMT

Increased player protections coming, players asked to plan ahead

By Kate Northrop

The UK National Lottery is bringing its website and app offline this weekend to implement the most significant improvements in its digital platform upgrades.

UK lottery players are encouraged to plan around the expected National Lottery website and app outage this weekend as the Lottery completes another major step toward its modernization efforts.

Starting 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 24 following